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AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Re: AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Post by amelius »

navane wrote: post #178

These songs don't have any hooks. Melodies don't get repeated. They all just meander along. I think as they get better at making these great middle of the road songs, edgy music will reemerge. Whatever AI will be good at, will immediately devalue, in the realm of arts. Just how photography gave way to non-realistic art and how drum machines made sloppy drums (or ridiculous apex twins) hip. Then, the artifacts we see…

Elevator music ...

Hmm, perhaps there is a business model there: an elevator that writes music about the people inside the elevator, and adapts as the situation changes.

Re: AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Post by tsukikage »

mrtksn wrote: post #100
CrLf wrote: post #54

If this was an actual person performing, I would have smiled all the way to the end. Since this is AI-generated, I feel no emotion towards this, and just listened for a few seconds. It's technically interesting.

Seriously, the "creatives are screwed" narrative has fallen apart for me because the stuff made in AI has proven to be worthless. Why is it worthless? Because the point of art was to communicate or convey something with other people and the AI has no idea because its not human. A few words or a sequence of sounds can be enough to transfer great deal of feeling and meaning because we run about the same software and as…

Get a room in any hotel run by one of the large chains - Accor, Hilton, IHG...

On the wall, you will find an Obligatory Art. Sometimes it's just a canvas with 3-4 stripes of paint: you can imagine a purely mechanical process for churning these out; a conveyor belt with brushes hanging over it, perhaps. Other times it's a little more creative. Each room is slightly different. You can also sometimes see these in cheap home decor shops. It may not be much, but it does the job - it really does make the space more pleasant than just blank walls would be.

There are a lot of rooms to fill. Someone has to make all these. It may not be all that creative, but it sure beats working in, say, a produce packing plant. Meanwhile, it's hard to make a living in art - some are wildly successful, yes, but the tip of that pyramid is very small and getting there takes as much luck as skill; and there are a lot of people further down the pyramid who also need to eat while waiting for their big break.

Those are the jobs at risk from generative AI in its current state.

Re: AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Post by ano-ther »

The quality of this has become amazing. Clear voice with expression. Fitting instruments. Good mix.

Creativity though? These non-poetic songs (I heard “Lorem Ipsum” the other day) are a fun novelty because a machine creates this in no time. A skilled musician will do something similar.

Innovation? Deepmind showed new creative approaches. Will this happen with music too? Or will they just regurgitate styles from the past?

It’s definitely good for Muzak, where you want a non-offensive, slightly upbeat, and not-too-reconizable background. And perhaps as an idea generator.

Re: AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Post by wjnc »

amelius wrote: post #181
navane wrote: post #178

These songs don't have any hooks. Melodies don't get repeated. They all just meander along. I think as they get better at making these great middle of the road songs, edgy music will reemerge. Whatever AI will be good at, will immediately devalue, in the realm of arts. Just how photography gave way to non-realistic art and how drum machines made sloppy drums (or ridiculous apex twins) hip. Then, the artifacts we see…

Elevator music ... Hmm, perhaps there is a business model there: an elevator that writes music about the people inside the elevator, and adapts as the situation changes.

Instant dystopia

Custom audio and video advertising based on profiling and location

Looking at my spam folder what my world will look like then

Re: AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Post by LadyCailin »

amelius wrote: post #181
navane wrote: post #178

These songs don't have any hooks. Melodies don't get repeated. They all just meander along. I think as they get better at making these great middle of the road songs, edgy music will reemerge. Whatever AI will be good at, will immediately devalue, in the realm of arts. Just how photography gave way to non-realistic art and how drum machines made sloppy drums (or ridiculous apex twins) hip. Then, the artifacts we see…

Elevator music ... Hmm, perhaps there is a business model there: an elevator that writes music about the people inside the elevator, and adapts as the situation changes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Un_oHaf798

Re: AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Post by jsheard »

ano-ther wrote: post #185

The quality of this has become amazing. Clear voice with expression. Fitting instruments. Good mix. Creativity though? These non-poetic songs (I heard “Lorem Ipsum” the other day) are a fun novelty because a machine creates this in no time. A skilled musician will do something similar. Innovation? Deepmind showed new creative approaches. Will this happen with music too? Or will they just regurgitate styles from the p…

> Innovation? Deepmind showed new creative approaches. Will this happen with music too? Or will they just regurgitate styles from the past?

That's an often overlooked difference between earlier projects like DeepMinds AlphaGo and the current genAI craze. With something like Go you can dial in the exact parameters to solve for (winning a game of Go) and then let the AI experiment and find novel ways to get there. But with image generation, or music, or language models the measure of quality is too vague to define in a way that the AI can directly optimize towards, so they're instead just fitted to existing examples.

Re: AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

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Post by dotancohen »

navane wrote: post #178

These songs don't have any hooks. Melodies don't get repeated. They all just meander along. I think as they get better at making these great middle of the road songs, edgy music will reemerge. Whatever AI will be good at, will immediately devalue, in the realm of arts. Just how photography gave way to non-realistic art and how drum machines made sloppy drums (or ridiculous apex twins) hip. Then, the artifacts we see…

  > drum machines made sloppy drums (or ridiculous apex twins) hip.
Other than The White Stripes, what popular bands have had clearly unskilled drummers? I actually enjoy listening to more amateur music, so this might be a request for recommendations of a sort.
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